Word: leopards
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Tenley Albright, 16, of Newton Center, Mass., a blue-eyed blonde who did her practicing in leopard-skin tights, but put on a more conservative black & red outfit for the competition. A Boston Skating Club protegee of Old Pro Willie Frick, willowy (5 ft. 6 in., 120 Ibs.) Tenley Albright recovered well enough from a 1947 attack of polio to be runner-up in this year's nationals...
Following this, there came a group of leopard-clad modern dancers, but we were not to see them perform. A feminine voice, whispering "Hsst, you're on," caused us to move out and follow the speaker down a long hall. While we walked, she explained nervously what we were to do. "You take the girl by the arm, escort her to the punch bowl, wait a moment, and then escort her to the runway. She'll walk out, and when she comes back, you take her arm and walk back into the wings." It sounded terribly easy...
...lives well, if not on the scale of leopard-skin luxury of some more fabulous divas of the past. Home is a roomy duplex apartment off Manhattan's Park Avenue, where her mother lives with her as companion, housekeeper and secretary. Patrice dresses well but not lavishly, and if she has a weakness for finery, it comes out at the furriers. Her wardrobe includes two mink coats, a mink cape and stole, a nutria coat, an ermine wrap, and a spare mink skin "to keep my throat warm...
...young lion considered so tame he was tied to a stake outside his cage. Next day, as the Campa circus trundled along the rain-slicked road toward Mount Ida, two trucks overturned. Nine beasts scampered into Ouachita National Forest. A pursuing posse brought down one of two escaped leopards and recaptured a tame black bear and a rhesus monkey. The other leopard prowled all night before being tracked down by a small but heroic cur named Tony, whose owner, Roiston Fair, shot the leopard, but not before it had killed Tony. Still in the forest: a polar bear, a black...
...decades ago Hollywood was Babylon cum Samarkand cum Coney Island. The mind swayed like a prop palm before a wind machine; reason lay limp on the cutting-room floor. Pola Negri walked her leashed leopard cub. through the streets; Bessie Love drove a lavender-colored limousine ; Marion Davies* brought a marble bridge from Italy to span her 80-ft., saltwater swimming pool; and Dolores Del Rio let it be known that she drank only from a golden chalice. Even discounting the pressagents' fevered imaginations, it was a wondrously gaudy existence...